What're your thoughts on this? I completely agree with this statement. I personally don't like how it's still a federal crime. So much is spent on the war against drugs / marijuana, people are in jail for petty crimes. In my opinion it's no worse than alcohol, in fact alcohol is probably worse for you than marijuana. I don't smoke the stuff myself, but I think it's ridiculous that it's not legal....especially when things like cigarettes and alcohol are bad for ones health.

Sincerely,
An avid consumer of alcohol

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President Obama says marijuana use is no more dangerous than alcohol, though he regards it as a bad habit he hopes his children will avoid.

"As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life,'' he said in a magazine interview. "I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol."

He said marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.''

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"It's not something I encourage, and I've told my daughters I think it's a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy," he said.

Obama made his remarks in a series of interviews with The New Yorker, which published a story about the conversations in its Jan. 27 issue and on its website.

White House docs say pot causes brain damage and lower IQ in teens, alcohol does not

President Obamas latest claims about marijuana are contradicted by research and official positions of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which is part of the White House. And Mr. Obamas words have anti-drug leaders worried about negative repercussions among youth.

Mr. Obama claimed to The New Yorker magazine that marijuana is no worse than cigarettes or alcohol and he promoted state efforts by Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law.

The National Drug Control Policys official stance, posted on the whitehouse.gov website, says the opposite of Mr. Obama on all counts.

For example, as documented in agency reports, marijuana smoke has significantly more carcinogens than tobacco smoke.

And as reported by the governments National Institute on Drug Abuse, adolescent use of marijuana does something that alcohol does not; it causes permanent brain damage, including lowering of I.Q.

Taxpayers have spent billions of dollars warning about drugs, often about marijuana, but these efforts were dramatically undercut by the presidents comments.

Mr. Obama might as well have rolled that money into a joint and smoked it on national television.

The political views of The Washington Times are often described as conservative.[48][49][50] The Washington Post reported: "the Times was established by Moon* to combat communism and be a conservative alternative to what he perceived as the liberal bias of The Washington Post."[5]

As marriage equality becomes legal in more and more states, it only makes sense to legalize marijuana too. I know I have the backing of all my Christian friends here as Leviticus 20:13 says if a man lays with another man, he should be stoned. My only question is what do lesbians do?

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